www.facebook.com/paradisesinsband [Release date 06.12.24]
Paradise Sins are a recent formation (2022) and look back to 1980s melodic hard rock for their inspiration. This five track EP is their second main calling card to date (following the previous EP ‘Untamed’) but the production, as often the case with new contenders, really lets them down. There’s potential here but the band need an objective kick up the pants.
‘Love Like Hell’ pulled as the lead track is just a sonic mess but provides the aural template. Vocalist (and guitarist) Luis Riley Morrison is mixed well to the front – his vocal style perhaps an acquired taste – whilst the guitar sound is hardly in your face. Things don’t get any better with ‘Beautiful Disaster’ – the title probably sums up this whole endeavour.
The band try their hands at the atmospheric (aka slow ballad) with patented rain noises at the start of (and during) ‘Slipping Away’ but there’s still something amiss.
The PR blurb quotes guitarist (and producer) Dan Jay “The production is a wild auditory ride – an unapologetic , immersive reflection of our unrelenting love for the live show. Let the sins begin…” God help us.
Throughout, due to the incoherent knob twiddling, the metronomic kick drum dominates. This is demonstrated clearly on ‘Second Renaissance’ to the detriment of the distant-sounding, aurally suppressed, guitars. And the kick drum is prominent again on ‘Sacrifice’ after a more promising start.
We’re not asking for Beau Hill, but this could have been so much better. **1/2
Review by David Randall
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